Penny-Farthing | One bicyclist at Saturday's Braintree Bluegrass Brunch who didn't join others in the trail rides was Harvie Porter. “High wheelers" are decidedly unfit for trails, owing to their propensity for sending the rider headfirst over the handle-bars. Popular in the 1870s and 80s, these were dubbed "penny-farthings" for their disproportionate wheels hearkened the largest and smallest common English coins of the Victorian era. (Herald / Bob Eddy)